Neurotically successful
Published: Sun, 10/04/20
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It'll happen one day.
One day, my clients will find out I'm not as smart as I appear.
My boss will uncover the truth about my team-leading performance.
I'll wake up and this highly successful wholesaling gig will come to a self inflicted end.
Sound at all familiar?
It would if you spoke to the terrifically competent wholesaler who spent too much time looking over his shoulder, for fear the layoff axe was chasing him.
Or the wholesaler who relentlessly chased her goals, exceeded every one of them, and then lived in fear that it would all soon end, because she knew she'd be "found out".
In 1978 two American psychologists, Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes, gave it a name: Impostor Phenomenon aka Imposter Syndrome.
In a nutshell, Imposter Syndrome says that, despite your tremendous success (it's most prevalent in successful folks), you just know that one day you'll be outed as a fraud.
Maybe you're not feeling like an imposter or looking over your shoulder, but simply afflicted by a multitude of potential neuroses that make make us both wholesalers and human.
What's a great wholesaler to do?
Three thoughts:
1) You are not alone.
2) Don't fight the feeling, lean into it. Our jobs come prepackaged with emotional baggage.
3) Use any acknowledged self doubt, insecurity or anxiety as the rocket fuel that drives you to outperform.
Read: 6 Ways Wholesalers Become Franchise Players
Rob
p.s. Our 2021 Wholesaler Masterminds Rotation Builder is available now @ 50% OFF!
This year, because of covid, we've developed an Advisor Meeting Preference Worksheet that we think will come in mighty handy - and it's included at no additional cost.
Check it all out here!
One day, my clients will find out I'm not as smart as I appear.
My boss will uncover the truth about my team-leading performance.
I'll wake up and this highly successful wholesaling gig will come to a self inflicted end.
Sound at all familiar?
It would if you spoke to the terrifically competent wholesaler who spent too much time looking over his shoulder, for fear the layoff axe was chasing him.
Or the wholesaler who relentlessly chased her goals, exceeded every one of them, and then lived in fear that it would all soon end, because she knew she'd be "found out".
In 1978 two American psychologists, Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes, gave it a name: Impostor Phenomenon aka Imposter Syndrome.
In a nutshell, Imposter Syndrome says that, despite your tremendous success (it's most prevalent in successful folks), you just know that one day you'll be outed as a fraud.
Maybe you're not feeling like an imposter or looking over your shoulder, but simply afflicted by a multitude of potential neuroses that make make us both wholesalers and human.
What's a great wholesaler to do?
Three thoughts:
1) You are not alone.
2) Don't fight the feeling, lean into it. Our jobs come prepackaged with emotional baggage.
3) Use any acknowledged self doubt, insecurity or anxiety as the rocket fuel that drives you to outperform.
Read: 6 Ways Wholesalers Become Franchise Players
Rob
p.s. Our 2021 Wholesaler Masterminds Rotation Builder is available now @ 50% OFF!
This year, because of covid, we've developed an Advisor Meeting Preference Worksheet that we think will come in mighty handy - and it's included at no additional cost.
Check it all out here!